Australia’ is a big-budget epic directed by Oz native Baz Luhrman, and it was a superb movie in 2008. I'm glad I get to watch it at HBO last saturday as the premier, and I can watch it again anytime in the same HBO channel on TV. Plot summary

Not long before the outbreak of World War II, Lady Sarah Ashley is an English aristocrat who inherits a ranch in Australia and goes to claim it. She discovers the ranch, known as Faraway Downs, is the target of a cattle baron named King Carney, who is trying to monopolize the cattle business in the area. In order to save the ranch, the woman reluctantly teams with an experienced drover to move 2,000 head of cattle across an unforgiving landscape. Before they reach their goal, they witness the Japanese bombing of the city of Darwin, which suddenly changes everything.